01 February 2022
Jeremiah Harrison
Ms Regina Chinamasa has been appointed the acting Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) Commissioner General.
Chinamasa is taking over from Rameck Masaire who is reported to have retired from the Authority on January 31st.
Reports by Nhau/Indaba state that Commissioner Chinamasa is a tax expert with over 28 years of diverse experience in the field of revenue mobilisation
and enforcement of compliance to fiscal laws.
According to the tax man, Comm. Chinamasa is credited for
introducing various processes that are plugging revenue leakages through modern investigative and
compliance systems.
“She also has vast experience in domestic taxes and customs and excise fields.”
“Ms Chinamasa started her career as a Tax Assessor in 1994 in the then Department of Taxes and joined the
Investigation Division of ZIMRA at its inception in 2001.
“She moved to Customs and Excise in 2011 as Head of Compliance and Risk Management. She was part of
the team that introduced the authorised economic operators (AEOs) trade facilitation, post clearance audits
among other innovations.
From 2014, she moved to Domestic Taxes and served in various leadership roles from Head level to acting
as Commissioner Domestic Taxes between 2016 and 2018.
In an interview with Nhau/Indaba Josephine Matambo ZIMRA Board vice-chairperson also commented on Chinamasa,
“During her career, she led various strategic and transformative initiatives and processes which resulted in improved stakeholder engagements, improved compliance levels and reinforcement and strengthening of
revenue collection processes of the Authority”
Her duties as the commissioner general begins on the 1st of February 2022.
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